5 1,2 Mr. F. J. Jackson on Birds collected 



This species seems to me out of place in the genus 

 Turdinus, and would be better placed in the genus Alcippe, 

 as arranged by Dr. Reiehenow in his ' Yogel Afrikas' (iii. 

 p. 740). It differs from A. abyssinica in its darker and 

 more rufous-brown upper surface, darker slaty-grey under 

 surface, and black head and throat. A. atriceps appears 

 to be of the same tint above as A. stierlinyi Reiehenow 

 {t. c. p. 744), but has not the white streaks on the throat. 



If A. monachus Reiehenow differs from A. abyssinica only 

 in the more reddish-brown tint of the back, and has the same 

 extent of grey, then A. claudi of Alexander is undoubtedly 

 a distinct species from both of them, as the grey of the head 

 extends over the interscapulary region. — R. B. S.] 



96. Bathmedonia jacksoni. 



Bathmocercus jacksoni Sharpc, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 10 

 (1902) ; id. Hand-1. B. iv. p. 35 (1903). 



Bathmedonia rufa (pt.) Reiehenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 742 

 (1905). 



H. 730. (J ad. The Kibera, Jan. 30, 1902. Bill black ; 

 feet light slaty-blue. Type of the species. This little bird, 

 with three or four others, was picking about on the ground 

 in thick bush. 



[Mr. Jackson has three specimens of this bird from 

 Kericho in Lumbwa — two males and a female. They agree 

 with the type of my Bathmocercus jacksoni in having a 

 shade of light cinnamon skirting the black throat and fore- 

 neck, and separating the black from the chestnut of the 

 back. The female has a very distinct creamy-buff circlet 

 round the black fore-neck. This light shade is not shown 

 in either sex of the true B. rufa from the Camaroons, and 

 I therefore consider B. jacksoni to be distinct from that 

 species. Dr. Reiehenow has united them (Vog. Afrikas, iii. 

 p. 742), but I think that they will have to be kept separate. 

 B. fuscipennis Sharpe is certainly only a young male of 

 B. rufa.— ft. B. S.] 



97. Merula centralis. 



Tardus pelios saturatus (nee Cab.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool, 



